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What is the noun for smallholdings?

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smallholding
  1. (Britain) A piece of land, smaller than a farm, used for the cultivation of vegetables or the breeding of animals
  2. (US) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20-49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).
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    1. “I want to start a sustainable lifestyle by purchasing a smallholding where I can cultivate various crops and raise animals for self-sufficiency.”
      “Keith runs an organic smallholding and keeps free range hens and these Aylesbury duck.”
      “I grew up in Somerset, on a seven acre smallholding where my parents and sister still live.”
smallholder
  1. (Britain) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.
  2. (US) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The EU said in a statement it believes that the highest incidence of poverty is among the smallholder communal farmers.”
      “He is a smallholder, a farmer of Chardonnay, and right now his local reputation and personal pride is on the line.”
      “The beneficiaries are not smallholder farmers but huge multinational agribusinesses.”
smallholdings
  1. plural of smallholding
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    1. “But he also put in train measures to tackle the chronic shortage of smallholdings in the island by dividing up some of the large estates.”
      “Some 20 years ago Midrand was an agricultural zone, with smallholdings and farmlands.”
      “Do you know of any properties or smallholdings, anywhere, with groves of mango trees for sale?”
smallholders
  1. plural of smallholder
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    1. “In 1068 the Domesday Book recorded a population of 650 people, including 28 slaves, 45 smallholders and 23 swineherds.”
      “Coffee farmers are mostly poor smallholders in Latin America, Africa, and parts of East Asia such as Vietnam.”
      “He created an agrarian dictatorship in a country where the majority of the population consisted of agrarian smallholders.”
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